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It is no secret that we at MD Systems take community very seriously. We have invested time and money in many Drupal 8 initiatives in the past 3 years. This has helped us adopting Drupal 8 sooner than the majority of the community and also resulted in MD Systems becoming the number one contributor to Drupal.

Paragraphs recently gained focus and wide adoption in modern Drupal projects. The module is showcased on almost every DrupalCamp or DrupalCon as a best practice for advanced content creation in applications with a growing frequency of blog posts.With our experience in Media, we at MD Systems have decided to target Paragraphs as a focus topic for the future of content creation. After joining the team of maintainers, it was time to call the community for a workshop.

Since April, MD Systems has been in the first place of the global ranking of Drupal companies. This outstanding position is the result of a steadfast realization of a long term open source strategy together with our clients.

After a long time of absence, the Drupal User Group Meeting took place at MD Systems again. First, the community celebrated MD Systems for being on the first place of the global company ranking on drupal.org. Right after, the audience could listen to interesting presentations about Drupal 8.

The annual "Best of Swiss Web" awards took place in Zurich on Thursday, April 7.

On Monday, April 4th 2016 another news portal based on NP8 has been published: zueriost.ch. Somedia Production was responsible for project management, design and the frontend implementation, MD Systems did the functional implementation. Amongst other features, an individualised paywall was introduced.

Translation Management (TMGMT) has reached its largest milestone since the project was started in 2011. We are excited, that Continuous Translation is now a standard feature of TMGMT core. The system can be configured to automatically submit new or updated content to the translation service provider. With a first release candidate, we are closing the current development phase.

Since Drupal 8 has come out, various translation service providers (TSPs) have contacted us either about newly integrating their translation service with Drupal 8 through translation management (TMGMT) or porting their existing Drupal 7 TMGMT plugin to Drupal 8. In addition to these projects, we also have improved the TMGMT Core module and have added some long envisioned features.

The Drupalcon Asia 2016 took place from February 18 - 21 in Mumbai, India. Although MD Systems could not join, we still were present: Augustin Delaporte from platform.sh had a presentation about NP8 and told a wide audience about the success story of our project.

If you run a web platform, you will sooner or later identify that a well integrated CRM is a mission critical piece for business success and the common use of proprietary CRM software is causing headaches.MD Systems announces the Drupal CRM initiative in partnership with Trellon to build a Drupal 8 native open source CRM. Both parties will dedicate a significant amount of resources within the next 6 months to deliver a valuable standard product for change.